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Dr. Gilbert Rochon, president of Tuskegee University, has resigned from his position at the university.

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Tuskegee University president Gilbert Rochon's resignation this weekend came as a surprise to many of the university's trustees, a number of whom said Monday they did not know his reasons for leaving.

The university announced Saturday that Rochon, who became president of the historically black university on Nov. 1, 2010, had resigned "effective immediately" at the fall meeting of Tuskegee's Board of Trustees, after serving nearly three years in the position. A release said the Board accepted his resignation, but it gave no reason for Rochon's departure.